First Time Growing Aleppo Peppers

Aleppo peppers

Have you ever grown Aleppo peppers (aka Halaby peppers)?

Until this year, I hadn’t. To be honest, I’d never even heard of them before my daughter gave me some seeds.

The plant is about 3 feet with large leaves on a dense plant. More like a big bell pepper plant than the smaller leafed hot peppers I’m used to. The peppers are about the size of a small pepper too, though more wrinkled.

An Aleppo pepper plant

The plants are prolific too. I have two of them growing and they’ve each got about 10 peppers growing — probably double that with all the flowers on them.

According to Wikipedia it’s a medium hot pepper usually dried and ground. Something on the order of a paprika pepper, I guess.

Anyway, I really like the look of them. Can’t wait to see what they taste like.

Update: September 10, 2024

I just harvested a bunch of the peppers for drying, and they look spectacular. Fully ripe, they’re shiny and red, almost like candied apples.

Ripe Aleppo peppers are shiny and red, almost like candy